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      <div><h1><span class="kind-method">deleteSync</span> method</h1></div>

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      <span class="returntype">void</span>
            <span class="name ">deleteSync</span>
(<wbr>{<span class="parameter" id="deleteSync-param-recursive"><span class="type-annotation"><a href="dart-core/bool-class.html">bool</a></span> <span class="parameter-name">recursive</span>: <span class="default-value">false</span></span> })
      
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      <p>Synchronously deletes this <a href="dart-io/FileSystemEntity-class.html">FileSystemEntity</a>.</p>
<p>If the <a href="dart-io/FileSystemEntity-class.html">FileSystemEntity</a> is a directory, and if <code>recursive</code> is false,
the directory must be empty. Otherwise, if <code>recursive</code> is true, the
directory and all sub-directories and files in the directories are
deleted. Links are not followed when deleting recursively. Only the link
is deleted, not its target.</p>
<p>If <code>recursive</code> is true, the <a href="dart-io/FileSystemEntity-class.html">FileSystemEntity</a> is deleted even if the type
of the <a href="dart-io/FileSystemEntity-class.html">FileSystemEntity</a> doesn't match the content of the file system.
This behavior allows <a href="dart-io/FileSystemEntity/deleteSync.html">deleteSync</a> to be used to unconditionally delete any
file system object.</p>
<p>Throws an exception if the <a href="dart-io/FileSystemEntity-class.html">FileSystemEntity</a> cannot be deleted.</p>
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      <h2><span>Implementation</span></h2>
      <pre class="language-dart"><code class="language-dart">void deleteSync({bool recursive: false}) =&gt; _deleteSync(recursive: recursive);</code></pre>
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